Psoas muscle architectural design, in vivo sarcomere length range, and passive tensile properties support its role as a lumbar spine stabilizer

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 26, 2011, Pages

  Regev, Gilad J ^a   Kim, Choll W ^a,d   Tomiya, Akihito ^a   Lee, Yu Po ^a   Ghofrani, Hossein ^a   Garfin, Steven R ^a   Lieber, Richard L ^a,b   Ward, Samuel R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d ALVARADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

lumbar spine; muscle architecture; psoas muscle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CADAVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MUSCLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS MUSCLE; SARCOMERE LENGTH; SPINE STABILIZATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS, SKELETAL; MUSCLE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN KINASES; PSOAS MUSCLES; SARCOMERES;

EID: 83255181634     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31821847b3     Document Type: Article

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